On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:05 AM, David Leeming <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:40 PM, David Leeming > <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: >> Trying to install x11vnc on an XO-1 build 883 >> >> ... >> olpc-f14/primary >> http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] >> Metadata file does not match checksum >> Trying other mirror >> ... >> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from olpc-f14: [Errno 256] No more >> mirrors to try >> >> I tried yum clean all, reinstalling and trying again, checking date is >> correct, checking Internet connection is OK, nothing works - but I did > this >> successfully on another XO yesterday. > >>> You need to use the baseurl directive in the yum repo config file not >>> a mirror one as it's not mirroed. Peter > > > Thanks, if you please can advise how do I do that, and comment why it worked > previously (several times up to now I have done this successfully) ...
> I have no idea why it worked previously but the error says there's not > more mirrors to try which means yum isn't getting a mirror, given that > the rpmdropbox isn't mirrored it means that it's not using a baseurl > configuration for it. The various repositories are configured in > /etc/yum.repos.d/ and the various yum manual pages are your friend but > you'll find the config file is quite simple, there's a couple of > examples in that directory. Peter That directory contains olpc-f14.repo and olpc-f14-xo1.repo and both already have a baseurl line, i.e. baseurl=http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14/ and baseurl=http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14-xo1/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel